Agnes Denes Inspirational Quotes (30)

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

People have too many problems during the day they don't want to think.